The girls wanted Harley and Ivy, and this was the Ivy they liked. It was her or the Alex Ross version--which probably would have been my choice, but which was vetoed on the basis of "she's got a cabbage on her head!" And who could argue with that?
It's a pretty figure. The face is just right, although the body is, as the kids said, "kind of skinny." The costume, particularly the vines winding around her limbs, is nicely done apart from the thong aspect. I've always king of pictured Ivy as having a bit of a 1940s screen siren air to her--sort of a green Lauren Bacall--and the figure does have something of that sultry, glamorous thing going.
It's not a particularly playable figure. The hair gets in the way not only of head movement but of the right arm's movement as well. The arms don't extend out very far. The head turns but doesn't tilt. And the hips and knees don't move particularly well. Obviously she can't sit down. But...as I've said before of DC Direct, that's kind of as expected.
And to be honest, she's here mainly to hang out with Harley and be her friend. She's actually reasonably close in scale to the DC Universe Harley Quinn, and the kids are not unhappy with her.
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